#melancholy — Public Fediverse posts
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Sad Clarity
Sorrow has this unique potential to inflict upon you a sense of sudden clarity. The usual triggers are alcohol or a sad song you like.
Not clarity about a particular thing or idea.
Just clarity, as in, a clear mind to think.
Your mind can take you anywhere from here.
I usually waste it away brooding.
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the sadness of colors from bubble wand soap
Bubble Wand Colors
from The Fog In Spring
https://lewislacook.bandcamp.com/track/bubble-wand-colors
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"The Lonely Man on the Cliff," Pelle Swedlund, 1928.
Swedlund (1865-1947) was a Swedish artist known for his landscapes and cityscapes, especially of the Belgian city of Bruges.
Here he's taken us to a real place, Högklint, a dramatic limestone headland on the Swedish island of Gotland. A simple scene of a single figure standing atop the headland serves as a vehicle for the rich colors of the setting sun. The single figure has a downcast head, and the loneliness of the scene, and the setting sun, give it a strong melancholy air.
Swedlund had some success early on as an artist, and later became the curator of Stockholm's Thiel Gallery until just before his death.
From a private collection.
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Endless Blue - Beautiful Season
"Melancholy trip hop to play as your love walks away"
#downtempo #triphop #triphop #melancholy #triphop #femalevocalist #goodbye #lovelost #music
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Dusk
i had such grandiose plans
another day to spend
from the bank of my life
to reap the dividendsomewhere i went awry
i lost track of the sun
when i turned around again
the day was almost doneso now i pin my hopes
on the fading light
i watch the creeping shadows
and make plans for the nightAugust 13, 2015
#Aging #ContemplativePoetry #Disappointment #endOfDay #evening #fadingLight #Hope #lifeMetaphor #lostTime #Melancholy #Mortality #nightfall #reflection #regret #resilience #secondChances #shadows #SpiritualReflection #Time #unfinishedPlans #Writing -
"The Queen and the Page," Marianne Stokes, 1896.
Austrian-born Stokes (1855-1927) was married to British landscape painter Adrian Stokes, but she herself was, and is, regarded as one of the most important women artists of the Victorian period.
Her artistic education took her all over Europe, and it shows in her work, as she had influences from all over. She had close friendships with other women artists of the time, like Helene Schjerfbeck and Anna Ancher. But when she settled in England with her husband, she fell under the spell of the Pre-Raphaelites.
This depicts a scene from a medieval story of an elderly king married to a young queen, who is loved by her page, but they both know it's doomed and will end in both their deaths. You can see the melancholy in their poses....the queen knowing it's doomed, and the page looking at her in hopeless adoration. The scroll at the top describes it in German.
Such a romantic and tragic tale was ideal for the Pre-Raphaelites, and Stokes does it justice.
From a private collection.
#Art #MarianneStokes #PreRaphaelites #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #Melancholy #Herstory
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5 #AnalogPhotography #Analogue #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #BelieveInFilm #ShootFilm #MediumFormat #6x6 #FilmIsBetter #Grain #Analog #SquareFormat #ContemplativePhotography #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #BWPhotography #Nostalgia #Solitude #ParkAlley #BareTrees #WinterScene #Melancholy #QuietPlace #...
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Erythrina - Monolithica Aeternum / Terraqueous
"Epic Chillwave"
#ambient #electronic #synthwave #epic #melodic #melancholy #music
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Culdesac
down here on the path
beside the railroad tracks
with the freight train
slowly going by
the urge to hop on one
of the gravel laden cars
and let it take me
far away from here
is almost overpowering
as usual i do not
make the leap and
later i find myself
walking past the old man
with a broom sweeping
the street to where the path
turns back upon itself
out past the little girl
on her mama's back
who says hi
i try to smile in return
but all i can think about
is how did i ever get so lostJuly 9, 2015
#almostLeaving #brokenRoad #childGreeting #ContemplativeWriting #Depression #Displacement #emotionalHonesty #escape #findingTheWay #freightTrain #gettingLost #humanEncounter #innerExile #Journey #Loneliness #longing #lostness #Melancholy #noOutlet #oldManSweeping #ordinaryGrace #pathMetaphor #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #ProsePoem #railroadTracks #sadness #searching #slowTrain #SpiritualReflection #staying #streetScene #urbanPoetry #walkingPath #wandering #wayfaring #WordPressTagsLost #Writing -
Engraving from Johannes Faulhaber’s <i>Newe geometrische vnd perspektiuische Inuentiones</i> (1610), showing Platonic solids hanging in a workshop. (1610), from Newe geometrische vnd perspektiuische Inuentiones
.Source: New York Public Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a78a602c-8971-4b24-af2c-0a3bce64ae3c
#mathematics #globes #cartography #exploration #perspective #euclid #polyhedra #geometry #melancholy #art #publicdomain
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Two Hundred Fifty Years of What, and What For?
A drummer boy surfaced in my pocket change this week, on a quarter so worn his tricorn hat has gone soft at the edges. The Mint struck him by the hundreds of millions for the Bicentennial, Jack Ahr's little colonial drummer with the dual date 1776-1976 stamped beneath his heels, and fifty years later he still turns up in laundromats and bodegas like a veteran who never quite made it home. I was eleven when that coin was new. Holding it on a Tuesday in Jersey City, the day the country turns two hundred fifty, I felt the whole distance between that summer and this one settle into my palm, small and cold. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/04/two-hundred-fifty-years-of-what-and-what-for/
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The Ache
The ache dullens not
Despite the passing hours
It remains fresh as ever
It is happy to exist
Not demanding an end
As if it too has a right to exist
Like any other thing in this world.
Ask not what the ache is about’
It is at once about everything
And at once about nothing
The kind of ache that exists
In a breast far from its origins.
#Melancholy #Poem #Poetry #Sorrow #Suffering #TheAche